Avengers: Infinity War (2018, PG-13) is the biggest, most sprawling superhero epic yet, a comic book apocalypse that pits almost every character in the big screen Marvel Comics Universe—Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and more—against cosmic supervillain-with-a-god-complex Thanos (Josh Brolin). It ends on a cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers; to be concluded in 2019. Streaming on Netflix.

Watership Down: Limited Series, a Netflix coproduction with BBC, presents a four-part animated adaptation of the Richard Adams novel about a warren of rabbits fighting to establish a new home. This gritty tale is not for young kids. The star-studded voice cast includes James McAvoy, Gemma Arterton, John Boyega, Peter Capaldi, Nicholas Hoult, Daniel Kaluuya, Rosamund Pike, and Ben Kingsley. Now on Netflix.

Hereditary (2018, R) spins a family psychodrama of grief and guilt into an eerie horror film with supernatural overtones. Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne star in the sleeper hit of the summer, a rare thriller that favors mood and unease over shock value. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Classic pick: Audrey Hepburn stars in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Blake Edwards’ sparkling adaptation of Truman Capote’s bittersweet novella. Mickey Rooney’s buck-toothed turn as the Japanese landlord is an offensive and indefensible racial stereotype but the film is otherwise a smoothly handsome and quietly elegant romantic drama with playful touches of humor.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Matthew McConaughey stars in White Boy Rick (2018, R), based on the true story of a teenage drug trafficker turned FBI informant (Richie Merritt). Also on DVD and at Redbox

Coming to VOD before disc is the comedy Night School (2018, PG-13) with Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish and “boy and his robot dog” adventure A.X.L. (PG).

Action thriller American Renegades (2018, R) with J.K. Simmons and Sullivan Stapleton arrives a week after debuting in theaters.

Netflix

Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Dave Franco star in the hilariously foul-mouthed comedy The Little Hours (2017, R), based on the medieval stories of Giovanni Boccaccio and shot in the hills of rural Italy with period detail and a modern accent.

Foreign affairs: A Twelve-Year Night (Uruguay, 2018, not rated, with subtitles), an award-winning drama inspired by the true stories of political prisoners surviving solitary confinement, debuts on the U.S. on Netflix. Also new: crime thriller When Angels Sleep(Spain, 2018, not rated, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: The Magicians: Season 3 takes the young adult drama about a more grown-up school for magic into world where magic no longer exists. Also new:

Amazon Prime / Hulu

Iron Man 2 (2010, PG-13), Mach 2 version of the heavy metal superhero franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. as the hard-partying munitions genius turned modern knight in atomic armor, is bigger, busier and more tricked out. There are new villains (Mickey Rourke as a Russian rival with a family vendetta), new allies (Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in a curve-hugging cat suit) and new challenges (Stark faces alcoholism… sort of). For all of Downey’s bubbly, brash energy, the fizz is a little flat in this sequel but the effects are impressive. Gwyneth Paltrow is his long-suffering girl Friday, Don Cheadle suits up this time as best friend and military babysitter Rhodey and Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury. Prime Video and Hulu.

Hulu

New Year, New You (2018, not rated), the fourth feature-length episode of Hulu’s original horror series “Into the Dark,” arrives a week early to premiere before New Year’s Eve.

HBO Now

Wes Anderson’s animated Isle of Dogs (2018, PG-13) is a playful fantasy adventure set in a near-future Japan.

Arriving on Saturday night is the back-to-school comedy Life of the Party (2018, PG-13) with Melissa McCarthy.

Showtime Anytime

Spotlight (2015, R), the story of the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child molestation by priests, won the Oscar for Best Picture. Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Keaton star.

Also new: urban drama Pimp (2018, TV-MA) with Keke Palmer and thriller City Of Ghosts (2002, R) with Matt Dillon and James Caan.

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Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. He writes the weekly newspaper column Stream On Demand and the companion website, and his work appears at RogerEbert.com, Turner Classic Movies online, The Film Noir Foundation, and Parallax View.